Spokane Visit - Photos

The slide show was fun, but not the best quality pictures.  Here are a few of our favorites.  Looking forward to our visit in May for Bloomsday, Andy's graduation, and 2 weeks with grandma and grandpa.

 

Spokane Visit

We miss our family already!

Spokane Visit

The first weekend in May we went up to Spokane for our annual Spring visit (and Bloomsday 2011). We had a great time with the entire family and are looking forward to going back in June.

Spokane Visit - Bloomsday

It has been a while since we were able to visit the Thew family. Of course Gavin has changed so much. Year #2 of attempting to get the entire family to do Bloomsday. We had much higher participation this year; everyone except dad who decided to nearly break his leg in 1/2 (conveniently 2 weeks before Bloomsday). He was a great chauffeur though and always makes it much easier for the rest of us.

Playing with 1 of many of Grandpa's firetrucks.

Early Sunday morning, we're all getting ready for the race.

Race time!! Well sort of. Gavin & Barb were stuck in the stroller section which we found out just before the race that is the 'no running zone'. Glad we packed all of our running gear. Ended up we found some small pockets we could run in. It did take us 7 of the 7.5 miles to finally catch up to our family. Jason finished and looped back around; he met us at around mile 3 and did the rest of the race with us. Gavin was SUPER GREAT, stayed in the stroller the whole time and never peeped.

That is of course until Uncle begged to hold Gavin. Here he is riding on Uncle Russell's shoulders and wearing Russ' hat...yeah he thought he was pretty cool, but he is!

The vulture at the top of Doomsday Hill - we did it Gavin!

FINISHERS! It was fun, but next year I think we'll volunteer Grandma to be in the stroller section so mom & dad can run together and try to break an hour as a team!

The ride home from lunch with the Spokane Hendricks'. He visited and ate, but then he crashed...hard! We were happy we were able to see Mark, Lisa, and Morgan on our short visit.

Until August and the Pig Roast! We love & miss you guys already!!!

Spokane Visit

On another airplane. We went to Spokane and lucky us, it snowed. We flew back with G&G Thew and they babysat me while mom went to work at the Spokane office.

Grandma's bathtub is too deep, but I'm almost too big for the kitchen sink. I did love sitting up like a big boy all by myself though.

Uncle Russell kept me happy when I was starting to get fussy at Sawtooth Grill, the restaurant he is the kitchen manager at. He made a delicious, messy bison burger for mom and she ate the whole thing. Uncle Andy was there also, he was a server that night.

My first visit with Santa, he's got a big soft lap. We went to the Spokane Carousel for grandma's union night. We took some canned food and got to ride the carousel. Mom & I rode the tiger because it was stationary...a little safer for my first merry go round.